Year of Socks – Sock 6 5

In my haste to share my gorgeous Rhombus socks, I totally forgot about poor Mona! And she actually is very pretty in her own right, so that wasn’t right of me at all!

Mona is a VERY easy Cookie A pattern, though I have to say it wasn’t the funnest one to knit. [...]

August 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: 11 socks in 2011, 2011, cookie a., Doggies, fiberphiles, hitchcock, knitting, socks | 10 comments

Year of Socks – Socks 3&4

Again I went MIA for a few weeks… I wish I could say that this will be over, but sadly I doubt it very much for the next couple of months. As it turns out I’m traveling a LOT over the summer (and have been traveling a lot this Spring as well) and as such [...]

June 3rd, 2011 | Category: 11 socks in 2011, cookie a., fiberphiles, knitting, life | 11 comments

Daybreak, Fireworks and a Moon

While I was at the Spring Fling I wanted to knit something that was mindless and easy to work on while chatting with friends. Enter Daybreak!

I’ve been wanting to knit this shawl since it came out way back when but I never got around to it. Plus, I was always a little wary [...]

May 10th, 2011 | Category: fiberphiles, knitting, nyc, photography, shawls | 18 comments

Happy Birthday to Me!

Today was my birthday and although I will be celebrating it with more friends on Friday I still wanted to do something on the day with the hubby, my sister and, of course, the dogs! So we went to my favorite place to eat outdoors in the city (it had to be outdoors because of [...]

May 4th, 2011 | Category: Birthday, Doggies, fiberphiles, Folha Luz, knitting, life, Prizes, stash | 23 comments

Mistakes happen…

It’s how you go about fixing them that matters! The picture above is my latest WIP – a Wood Hollow Vest as a birthday present for my mom’s 55th birthday. The broken rib was looking quite wonky to me and I was wondering what was going on only to remember that I had changed [...]

January 11th, 2011 | Category: design, fiberphiles, Folha Luz, knitting, madelinetosh, sweater, vest | 15 comments

I'm a Winner!

I’m so excited that my design, Folha Luz, was one of the two winning patterns for the Fiberphile Design Contest! I’m doubly excited as well because the other winning designer is Vanessa from The Fiber Fix who is also a good friend of mine. How amazing is that? And as part of my winnings [...]

January 11th, 2011 | Category: design, fiberphiles, Folha Luz, knitting | 20 comments
 
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